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The Good Soldier

By: Ford Madox Ford

...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...sight out of their heads. Some one has said that the death of a mouse from cancer is the whole sack of Rome by the Goths, and I swear to you that the ... ...sations full of worldly wisdom that Leonora has reported to me since their deaths. And is it pos- sible to imagine that during our prescribed walks in... ...t struck him that the things to take for that purpose were oranges—because California is the orange country—and comfortable folding chairs. So he boug... ...chairs. So he bought I don’t know how many cases of oranges—the great cool California oranges, and half-a-dozen folding chairs in a special case that ... ...to tell me all, secure a divorce from me, and go with Edward and settle in California… . I do not suppose that she was really serious in this. It woul... ... and unromantic, lives, periods punctuated by screams, by imbecilities, by deaths, by agonies? Who the devil knows? For there was a great deal of imbe...

...and yet as close as a good glove?s with your hand. My wife and I knew Captain and Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possible to know anybody, and yet, in another sense, we knew nothing at all about them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of this sad affair, I knew nothing wh...

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